Another Tory Myth De-Bunked.

[Canary42]

The myth ?

Vote Tory to promote home ownership.

https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/home-ownership-falls-more-uk-181400927.html

[jno]

they'll just have to sell off someone else's property, as Thatcher did.

[Old_Geezer]

Probably had further to fall.

[naomi24]

//they'll just have to sell off someone else's property, as Thatcher did.//

And every government since Thatcher after she had adopted Labour's dubious initiative,

[Guilbert53]

I still rather have a Tory government than ANY Labour government.

In every case since I was born Labour have left this country in a worse mess than when they came in and then the UKs finances have to be sorted out by the incoming Tory government.

If we could just leave out the terrible Labour times in office in between life would be fine.

[Old_Geezer]

Fine for those well off.

[ichkeria]

We tend perhaps to think of the UK as the land of home ownership or to associate it with wealth: in fact the biggest home owners in the EU are the Romanians, with Germany languishing in the relegation places.
Maybe we should lose our obsession with it, at least politically.

[ToraToraTora]

"Home ownership falls more in UK than any other EU country" - oh dear, VB/AB cherry pick stats alert! It is well known that most of the EUSSR rent and the UK buy if they can. Poor old Cannery not a scooby doo!

[naomi24]

OG, //Fine for those well off. //

That people who vote Conservative are all well off is another myth. I'm surprised Canary hasn't picked up on that one too.

[jno]

how's that work, TTT? If Europeans are happier renting you'd expect their rate of home ownership to decline faster than in Britain, not slower, since they're less bothered about owning anyway. And yet it's in Britain, where people want to own homes, that substantially fewer of them are doing so.

[Old_Geezer]

Never said they were. There are plenty of folk happy to be used by the richer strata of society and fall for the arguments that keep the well off in control.

[Old_Geezer]

Meanwhile owning things, especially your home, is hardly an obsession; for many it's just common sense.

[ichkeria]

"It is well known that most of the EUSSR rent and the UK buy if they can"
Not true, as I indicated before
https://www.statista.com/statistics/246355/home-ownership-rate-in-europe/
I guess that's yet another myth debunked :-)

[Gromit]

// Twenty years ago, 64 per cent of 25- to 34-year-olds in London and the South East owned a home, a figure that has now halved, to just 32 per cent. //

Luckily the Connservatives target the 55-75 voter.

[jno]

well, I never knew that before, thanks, ichkeria. I'm surprised; but that's what AB is here for.

Doubtless TTT will be along to thank you for the education shortly.

[naomi24]

OG, //There are plenty of folk happy to be used by the richer strata of society and fall for the arguments that keep the well off in control.//

Are you aware of any society where those in control aren’t comfortably off?

[ToraToraTora]

jno: "how's that work, TTT? If Europeans are happier renting you'd expect their rate of home ownership to decline faster than in Britain, not slower, since they're less bothered about owning anyway" - when the starting point is small any increase is large proportionately. Maybe more Europeans are deciding they'd like to own their own homes and in the UK maybe less people are thinking that. Either way it's just the times we live in nowt to do with "tory myth".

[10ClarionSt]

Guilbert, this country is much better off for having Labour in power. You have just fallen for the tabloid whitewash. If it says so in those papers, it must be true!

[dannyk13]

10ClarionSt. Guilbert is correct.I don't have too read any newspaper to remember the dire consequences of having a Labour government.The winter of discontent in 1978/79 is just one example.
https://libcom.org/history/1978-1979-winter-of-discontent